Yasuyo Maruyama
Profile
Yasuyo Maruyama
1985 Born in Kanagawa
2009 BFA in Oil Painting, Tokyo Zokei University
2011 MFA in Sculpture, Tokyo Zōkei University
Selected Exhibitions
Solo Exhibitions
2023
Redbud Arts Center, Houston, Texas
2021
The FORUM, Wichita Falls, Texas
2020
Ro2 Art | Downtown, Dallas, Texas
2016
GALLERY MoMo Projects, Tokyo
2015
Foyer Gallery, Midwestern State University, Wichita Falls, Texas
2012
GALLERY MoMo Ryogoku, Tokyo
2010
Gallery Sakamaki, Tokyo
2009
GALLERY MoMo Roppongi, Tokyo
Awards
2022
NEW AMERICAN PAINTINGS WEST #162
9th Annual Texas Juried Exhibition — Special Jury Prize
2018
VAA 35th Juried Open Exhibition — Third Prize
2013
Sompo Japan Art Award — Selected
2012
Liquitex Art Prize 2012 — Hideyasu Moto Award
2011
ZOKEI Award at the 2010 ZOKEI Exhibition — Winner
Idemitsu Art Award Exhibition — Tamayo Iemura Award
Concept
The scenes, memories, air, colors, and specific gestures that I see in my daily life as I interact with others are all motivations for my work. I became interested in the human face after suffering from severe atopic dermatitis as an adolescent, and I use the people I encounter as my medium while mixing my own perspectives to create “someone” and depict the “face” within each of them.